Agree. As parents get richer, their methods always seem to be ‘better’ simply because they have more time and money to invest in their kids. People always talk about how parents should give their kids ‘enriching childhoods’, but completely ignore that enrichment costs shittons of money.
Agree.
Keep in mind, the Kursk offensive’s goal seemed to be to take control of the Kursk nuclear power plant to threaten a nuclear meltdown on Russian soil and/or to take control of nuclear weapons nearby. In other words, Ukraine tried to directly threaten nuclear war as a bargaining chip.
If Ukraine and NATO wants nukes that badly, Russia should deliver them the experience, whether via nukes or conventional munitions. I honestly do not give a shit anymore what happens to the Ukronazis. If they want to get glassed that badly, Russia should give it to them.
I just don’t see what Russia loses from doing so anymore. All of NATO is already attacking them, so the only real further escalation is nukes.
NATO is already sending all its gear to Ukraine, so no new gear will magically appear if Russia starts striking Poland and Romania. In the grand scheme, it would actually make things easier for Russia since they can take out command, control, and repair centers used by Ukraine that they currently allow to exist in NATO countries.
The thing is, it’s an equivalent response to the Ukrainian invasion. NATO has invaded Russia, so Russia has the right to retaliate in kind towards NATO. I hope they bomb the Ukronazis back to the stone age.
If you watch the most recent show with Scott Ritter (full summary by me here), he reports from Russian sources that Russia has already knocked out the Kursk invasion’s logistics, is capturing their equipment, and now just has to kill and capture the leftover Ukrainian stragglers.
The invasion force was equipped with the nicest NATO gear, indicating this incursion was planned and executed by NATO, not Ukraine alone. Do not believe the shit in the media about Zelensky ordering this alone. NATO ordered this, its failure is just a nice excuse to get rid of Zelensky for someone more malleable.
We will see severe Russian retaliation for this, possibly even attacking F16 bases in Poland and Romania in return.
We can guarantee this is pretty accurate because Ritter has talked with Apti Alaudinov earlier, one of the Russian commanders assigned to clean up the invasion.
Oh, you paid for the iOS app? That’s a one-time payment to help the devs pay for Apple’s Developer Fees (because for some fucking reason, developing for Apple costs each dev 99USD per year + requires a Mac).
No other platform is that entitled, so no other OS apps require you to pay. This issue is a big reason why open-source apps are less popular on iOS.
Apple has the gall to make developers pay for the privilege of making apps, then makes them pay a massive cut of any in-app purchases. By adding this fee, Apple incentivizes devs to add in-app purchases so they don’t lose money, ultimately making Apple even more money.
Yeah, Anki is super powerful, but that power is locked behind the learning curve. There are great YouTube channels to learn it such as The Anking. The new FSRS algorithm is based on sophisticated maths and is industry-leading in maximizing retention while minimizing the amount of reviewing you need to do per-day (see here for more info).
Sure, but Quizlet keeps putting good features behind a paywall. Learn and Test modes used to be free.
Anki is harder to learn at first, but much more powerful. Anki cards can be heavily customized to match and exceed Quizlet’s features (e.g. adding stroke order to Chinese cards, image occlusion for reviewing diagrams, custom code to do whatever). Anki’s spaced repetition algorithm is also better, especially with its new FSRS algorithm.
You can find a massive collection of shared decks on ankiweb.net, with tons of cards precoded with images, audio, and more.
I don’t think that’s physically possible unless you drank acid first to dissolve them. Actually, that would make great Yeonmi Park material!
I guess that’s one way Zionists can explain why they’re losing. If God really did approve, they could just call him to magically kill all Arabs and expand Israel.
Videos like these are kinda poor representations of the democratic discussion in the party. That happens way before the voting, so that practically everyone is in agreement during the National People’s Congress.
This is kinda an old article from 2021. Eventually China will have to raise the retirement age due to an aging population.
There are various tools you can use to strip metadata from the final image if you want to.
Just how much has Bongbong Marcos’ propaganda fucked up the Philippine people?
I’ve talked to people from the Philippines who say that the Marcos family has made several propaganda movies of themselves, showing themselves as “regular people” (albeit with shittons of jewels and shoes way out of reach of the average Filipino) and benevolent leaders under Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship.
This is the same Ferdinand that killed and tortured all his opposition with US support, and robbed ~$7 billion from the Philippines Central Bank when he was finally kicked out to Hawaii.
Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.
There’s even an Arabic+Latin version called Readex Pro. There’s a really cool article documenting how they adapted variable widths to the unique connected structure of Arabic writing.
Both are freely available on Google Fonts.
The US uses Falun Gong as one of their many propaganda operations against China. They even gave Falun Gong their own entire town in New York to build their cult city in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Springs
Here’s the original article: https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/nyu-professor-says-hamas-loving-students-need-to-have-more-sex/
Somehow, he makes an even worse take one paragraph down. Scott thinks these protests against Zionism will lead to the rise of Nazism again, and blames the original rise of Nazism on socialists in Germany in the 1930s.
Quote:
Galloway said American society would not survive if its people could not rally behind noble causes — adding that much of what he was seeing reminded him of the early rise of Hitler.
“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.
He seems to think that the socialists turned into Nazis, and not that the Nazis were created by capitalists in reaction to the socialists.
We are already starting to see liberals like Scott co-opt the righteous anger of young people and redirect them toward useless electoralism and antisocialism.
Scott recently made a viral TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E) where he points out all the problems that young people face, but of course proposes solutions that will never be implemented without changing the political system entirely.
Instead of blaming rich capitalists for squeezing us more, he just blames all old people, and makes sure to also knock affirmative action along the way for “reasons”.
Fighting misdirection from people like this is why we organize and educate.
They’re not even subtle about this shit either. To be able to legally invest in more sophisticated investment vehicles, you have to be an accredited investor. To be one, you must have either:
These requirements essentially hardlock the status to the top 5% in the US. Being one is the only way to buy into venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, etc., where all the real money is made.
The SEC sells this to the public as “keeping the uninformed public safe”, but it actually puts a hard wall on the ability of commoners to make lucrative investments.
This article is incredible, he managed to hit every Westoid gotcha in the book. Uyghurs, Rohingya, antisemitism, CRT, blah blah.
We could host leftist bingo sessions crossing off each gotcha.
US physicians like the for-profit insurance system because they are paid 2x or more than in single payer systems. For example, I know Canadian physicians who doubled their pay upon moving to the USA. It is a bribe by insurance companies for doctors to be apathetic towards capitalist suffering.